{"id":768,"date":"2016-06-24T07:32:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T06:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/?p=768"},"modified":"2018-01-25T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T11:18:43","slug":"webinar-and-staging-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2016\/06\/24\/webinar-and-staging-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar and Staging Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DPC is running a webinar on the contents of my paper on 29th<\/sup> June, and yesterday I completed the slides for it. With that done, I am completely up to date with all of my Journey activities and this left me feeling unburdened and relaxed.<\/p>\n

By chance, yesterday was also the day on which Richard Harper, a sociologist colleague from my CSCW days, dropped in for a chat. I\u2019d come across Richard\u2019s name in a paper I\u2019d read in the course of my investigation into Digital Age Artefacts. The paper recounted insightful work into what people actually kept in their houses \u2013 highly relevant to stuff I\u2019m doing \u2013 and I remember Richard as being a particularly interesting person to talk to. I looked him up on the web and discovered he had spent many years at the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge in the Socio-Digital Systems Group, investigating topics such as the myth of the paperless office and \u00a0communications in the digital age. I got to thinking that it would be great to talk to him to get a different take on what I\u2019d been doing and what I might do next. I managed to reach him through his blog and we arranged for him to call in here in Lavendon on his way home from a trip to Chipping Norton (the scene of the three CSCW meetings which he and I attended in the early 90s). Before he arrived I spent an hour listening to four or five of his talks on YouTube, and then we had a very pleasant couple of hours discussing digitisation stuff over lunch.<\/p>\n

It was good to see Richard again \u2013 and very kind of him to spend the time with me. As a result I have all sorts of new thoughts and perspectives rolling round my head which I know will take a few weeks to work through and take shape. Our conversation was the perfect opportunity to reassess what I\u2019m doing before I set out on the next phases of these journeys. An immediate thought that shines through, though, is that perhaps I should treat my future ventures to make<\/i><\/b> use<\/b><\/i> of the digital artefacts I have collected, as though they were one of the treasure hunt type games that I have occasionally devised for my family. i.e. things that are occasional and intriguing and fun.<\/p>\n

So, yesterday certainly felt like a memorable staging post in the things I have been doing. Oh, and by the way, as I write this I\u2019m discovering that this morning appears to be a staging post in the UK\u2019s journey \u2013 we appear to have voted to leave the European Union…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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